musl
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musl is a lightweight, fast, and standards-conformant implementation of the C standard library commonly used in minimalist and security-focused Linux distributions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| musl canonical | 3 |
| musl C library edition | 1 |
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
C standard library implementation
ⓘ
free and open-source software ⓘ software library ⓘ |
| author | Rich Felker ⓘ |
| contrastWith |
dietlibc
ⓘ
GNU C Library ⓘ
surface form:
glibc
uClibc ⓘ |
| designGoal |
correctness
ⓘ
fast ⓘ lightweight ⓘ robustness ⓘ security-focused ⓘ simple ⓘ standards-conformant ⓘ static linking friendly ⓘ |
| developer | Rich Felker ⓘ |
| feature |
ASLR-friendly design
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UTF-8 centric locale support ⓘ clean codebase ⓘ deterministic behavior ⓘ full static linking support ⓘ no glibc-specific runtime dependencies ⓘ small binary size ⓘ small runtime footprint ⓘ static and dynamic linking support ⓘ thread safety ⓘ |
| focus |
container environments
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embedded systems ⓘ minimalism ⓘ security ⓘ |
| homepage | https://musl.libc.org/ ⓘ |
| license |
MIT License
ⓘ
surface form:
MIT license
|
| operatingSystem | Linux ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| supports |
dynamic loader for shared libraries
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multithreading ⓘ static binaries ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
BSD extensions (subset)
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GNU extensions (subset) ⓘ ISO/IEC 9899 ⓘ
surface form:
ISO C99
POSIX.1-2001 ⓘ POSIX ⓘ
surface form:
POSIX.1-2008
System V Interface Definition ⓘ
surface form:
SUSv4
XSI extensions (subset) ⓘ |
| targetArchitecture |
AArch64
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ARM ⓘ MIPS ⓘ PowerPC ⓘ RISC-V ⓘ x86 ⓘ x86_64 ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Adélie Linux
ⓘ
Alpine Linux ⓘ Chimera Linux ⓘ Gentoo Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Gentoo Linux (musl profiles)
Linux From Scratch (musl variant) ⓘ OpenWrt ⓘ
surface form:
OpenWrt (some targets)
Sabotage Linux ⓘ Void Linux ⓘ
surface form:
Void Linux (musl variant)
postmarketOS ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
musl C library edition